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ward and eastward of Cape Herschel ; this was never found by 
the natives. The next trace is a camping-place on the sea-shore 
of King William’s Land, about three miles eastward of Pfeffer 
river, where two men died and received Christian (?) burial. At 
this place fish-bones were found by the natives, which showed 
them that Crozier and his party had caught while there a species 
of fish excellent for food, with which the sea there abounds. The 
next trace of this party occurs about five or six miles eastward, on 
a long, low point of King William’s Land, where one man died 
and was buried. Then, about south-south-east,two and a half-miles 
further, the next trace occurs on Todd’s islet, where the remains 
of ‘five men lie. The next certain trace of this party is on the 
west side of the islet, west of Point Richardson, on some low 
land that is an island or part of the main land, as the tide may be. 
Here the awning-covered boat and the remains of about thirty or 
thirty-five of Crozier’s party were found by the native Poo-yet-ta, 
of whom Sir John Ross has given a description in the account of 
his voyage in the Victory in 1829—34. 
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remains of white men. Close by were two graves. This tent 
was a little way inland from the head of Terror bay. In the 
to, were found many relics, most of them similar in character to 
those McClintock has enumerated as having been found in the 
boat he discovéred. 
“T tried hard to accomplish far more than I did, but not one of 
the company would on any account whatever consent to remain 
with me in that country and make a summer search over that 
island, which, from information I had gained from the natives, I - 
had reason to suppose would be rewarded by the discovery of the 
whole of the manuscript records that had been accumulated in 
that great expedition, and had been deposited in a vault a little 
way inland or eastward of Cape Victory. Knowing as I now do 
the character of the Eskimos in that part of the country in which 
King William’s Land is situated, I cannot wonder at nor blame 
the Repulse bay natives for their refusal to remain there, as I de- 
sired. It is quite probable that, had we remained there as I 
wished, no one of us would ever have got out of the country 
alive. How could we expect, if we got into straitened circum- 
stances, that we would receive better treatment from the Eskimos 
